Florida HB 7027: Florida Statutes

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A reviser's bill to be entitled 1
An act relating to the Florida Statutes; amending ss. 2
7.03, 7.05, 7.16, 7.38, 7.42, 7.54, 7.58, 7.66, 3
82.036, 100.371, 112.19, 112.191, 112.22, 125.01055, 4
166.04151, 202.34, 212.08, 212.099, 212.13, 258.004, 5
288.062, 316.193, 327.4111, 330.41, 332.136, 338.26, 6
388.46, 391.026, 394.4575, 400.126, 400.191, 409.910, 7
409.979, 427.703, 429.55, 445.004, 497.271, 570.321, 8
599.012, 679.3171, 679.613, 718.111, 718.112, 718.501, 9
718.503, 719.106, 720.303, 782.071, 782.072, 790.052, 10
823.11, 836.13, 893.03, 914.27, 916.111, 916.115, 11
921.0022, 934.255, 945.42, 945.485, 951.27, 984.151, 12
984.19, 984.21, 1003.27, 1008.25, 1011.61, and 13
1012.552, F.S.; deleting provisions that have expired, 14
have become obsolete, have had their effect, have 15
served their purpose, or have been impliedly repealed 16
or superseded; replacing incorrect cross-references 17
and citations; correcting grammatical, typographical, 18
and like errors; removing inconsistencies, 19
redundancies, and unnecessary repetition in the 20
statutes; and improving the clarity of the statutes 21
and facilitating their correct interpretation; 22
providing an effective date. 23
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 25

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Section 1. Section 7.03, Florida Statutes, is amended to 27
read: 28
7.03 Bay County.—The boundary lines of Bay County are as 29
follows: Beginning at the southwest corner of section eighteen 30
in township two, north, range eleven, west; thence west on the 31
section line to the southwest corner of section eighteen in 32
township two, north, range twelve, west; thence south on the 33
range line dividing ranges twelve and thirteen, west, to the 34
Meridian base line; thence west on the base line to the thread 35
of Pine Log Creek in range sixteen, west; thence southwesterly 36
along the thread of said creek into the Choctawhatchee River to 37
the thread of said river; thence southwesterly along the thread 38
of said river to a point where said river intersects the range 39
line dividing ranges seventeen and eighteen, west; thence south 40
on said range line to the Gulf of America; thence in a 41
southeasterly southeastwardly direction following the 42
meanderings of said gulf, including the waters of said gulf 43
within the jurisdiction of the State of Florida, including all 44
islands opposite the shoreline to a point where range line 45
dividing ranges eleven and twelve, west, intersects with said 46
gulf; thence north on said range line to place of beginning. 47
Reviser's note.—Amended to conform to the preferred form of 48
directional terms used in Florida Statutes. 49
Section 2. Section 7.05, Florida Statutes, is amended to 50

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read: 51
7.05 Brevard County.—The boundary lines of Brevard County 52
are as follows: Beginning in the thread of the St. Johns River 53
where the line dividing townships twenty-one and twenty-two 54
south, intersects said river; thence east on said township line 55
to the range line dividing ranges thirty-three and thirty-four 56
east; thence north on said range line to where the same 57
intersects the line dividing townships nineteen and twenty 58
south; thence east on said township line to the Atlantic Ocean; 59
thence southward along the Atlantic coast, including the waters 60
of the Atlantic Ocean within the jurisdiction of Florida, to the 61
intersection with the centerline of the Sebastian Inlet produced 62
easterly eastwardly, said inlet being in section twenty of 63
township thirty south range thirty-nine east; thence westerly on 64
said centerline and continuing southwesterly along the 65
centerline of the approach channel to said inlet from the Indian 66
River to a point due east of the mouth of the St. Sebastian 67
River; thence due west to the mouth of the St. Sebastian River; 68
thence south along the thread of the St. Sebastian River and the 69
thread of the south fork of the St. Sebastian River to a point 70
where the line dividing townships thirty and thirty-one south 71
intersects the thread of said south fork; thence west on said 72
township line to the line dividing ranges thirty-four and 73
thirty-five east; thence north on said range line to the 74
northeast corner of township twenty-five south, range thirty-75

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four east and the St. Johns River; thence nor